WHITE PAPERS
IDC White Paper - Appro's Xtreme-X Supercomputer: Designed for High Value and Attractive Price/Performance
The dramatic growth of the global market for high-performance computing servers has been driven almost exclusively by Linux clusters, which in 2006 accounted for more than half of this $10 billion market. Analyst Firm IDC examines the Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer based on Intel Xeon Processors and Appro's Management System in relation to the needs of HPC and Commercial markets.
Maximize HPC with Multi-Core Technologies
There have been many changes in the High Performance Computing (HPC) arena. But one of the biggest changes is the impact of multiple core processors. This document describes the HPC trends in the market space and the challenges that those trends have introduced to commercial data centers.
Advancements in HPC Improves Engineering and Electronic Cooling Simulations
In the HPC Engineering and Electronic community, power and cooling issues compound existing challenges in the data center. Appro delivers an outstanding solution designed to reduce the overall power consumption in the data center, saving valuable IT budget dollars through lower acquisition costs and lower long-term management costs.
Is Your HPC Cluster Ready for Multi-core Processors?
The evolution to multi-core processors provides a unique set of challenges and opportunities for the High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster sector. While multiple cores mean more computing power within the same space and power signature, the fundamental changes in processor architecture make efficient use of these processors more challenging than previous designs. This white paper provides a first look at utilizing multi-core processors within HPC clusters and contains recommendations for achieving good performance on multi-core systems.
Petascale - High Performance Computing for Oil and Gas Market
This document discusses the Analytical Needs of Exploration Geophysics and how to address those needs by applying High Performance Computing capabilities to the particular issues of seismic processing, enhanced oil recovery (EOR), and large, complex reservoirs.
Leveraging Xen Virtualization to manage your virtual datacenter
Recently there has been a large interest in virtualization technology from many market sectors. Cost reduction and system consolidation contribute to the virtualization trend. Choosing the right hardware can make a significant difference in how well a virtualization project succeeds. This white paper discusses how high performance server design can simplify infrastructure while scaling applications and safeguarding uptime.
From Fluid Dynamics to Business Performance
From computational fluid dynamics simulations to analyzing multi-dimensional sales data, the underlying mathematics is the same and that unifies benchmarking for both high performance and business performance computing.
Keeping Your Cool in the Data Center
Rethinking IT architecture and infrastructure is not a simple job. It can increase thermal efficiency and decrease power consumption. It also can boost server performance, often significantly. This White paper helps IT managers understand and overcome the complex challenges associated with thermal, power, and system management. It also offers detailed assessments of potential problems and solutions.
IDC White Paper: Infiniband Blade Integrated Platform to address HPC and Enterprise Needs
The HPC industry is in the midst of important technology trends that requires important considerations for product design. These trends reflect the user community's desire to improve both price, performance and TCO.
Next Generation Clusters for HPC and Commercial Data Centers
This white paper provides detailed information on new technology trends such as the combination of Intel EM64T processors, InfiniBand and PCI Express and how they can improve blade systems performance and solve your day-to-day business challenges.
Appro HyperBlade vs 1U servers TCO Analysis by IMEX Research
Find out more about how today's creative CIOs are taking the initiatives to find ways to save time and money for large-scale compute requirements. This is a three-year life cycle TCO (including Acquisition and Operation Costs) of a 512 node cluster in HPC environment using APPRO HyperBlade Servers based on AMD Opteronprocessors versus 1U servers from Dell, Hewlett Packard, IBM and Sun.
Building High-Performance Linux Clusters White Paper
This is a comprehensive White Paper on 'Building High-Performance Linux Clusters". This twenty-three page White Paper provides an overview as well as detailed information on the engineering approaches and the challenges of building a high-performance computing cluster. In addition, it presents comprehensive information focusing on the Linux Operating Systems running on AMD Opteron Processors. Also covered is a real example of building and provisioning an Appro HyperBlade 80-node cluster with a total of 160 AMD Opteron processors at the AMD Developer Center.
CASE STUDIES
Appro at Forefront of Supercomputer History - Advances Research at Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Research and Science teams at Lawrence Livermore National Lab depend on high-quality, innovative, and reliable high performance computing resources to power scientific discovery. See how Appro's highly scalable, dynamic and reliable Linux clusters met Lawrence Livermore National Labs supercomputing needs.
The Datacenter Behind Gossamer-Threads Hosting Services powered by Appro Servers
Based on their extensive knowledge and expertise of web software, and their experience with many different hosting platforms, Gossamer-Threads developed a high quality, top performance, and secure solution so clients could host websites in a fast, scalable and reliable environment. Learn how Appro servers provided the needed resources to keep Gossamer-Thread's client websites and applications up and running.
Appro XtremeServer High Performance Clusters power ANSYS/Fluent Flow-Modeling Simulations
Simulation software plays a vital role in supporting the manufacturing industry by enabling design and research engineers to build virtual prototypes and simulate the performance of proposed and existing designs, allowing them to improve design quality while reducing cost and speeding time to market.
Oil Companies Adopting Appro Clusters Realizing 400% Processing Increase at a Third of the Cost
In today's fast paced world, global oil companies have to make oil field drilling decisions faster with little room for error. Appro uses leading edge server technology to create solutions able to handle complex seismic processing, imaging and visualization projects up to four times faster than their previous server solutions helping companies stay ahead of the competition.
Magma - The 7th Fastest Technology Company Chooses Appro Blade Clusters
Appro HyperBlade provided higher performance, increased space and great remote management capabilities wrapped with outstanding support and services. Today, more than half of the company's servers are Appro blades.
Rice University Chose Three 38U Appro Cluster Solutions Powered by Intel® Xeon™ processors
'We are building Beowulf clusters for solving high performance computing problems primarily through parallel computing. We needed to move to rack mounted systems to conserve the limited amount of machine room space. We selected the Intel® Xeon™processors for our rack-mounted cluster nodes based on performance needs of the application workflow mix that we typically run. After evaluating several vendors, we found that Appro's engineering was excellent, especially with respect to the cooling system design. Because of performance and space considerations, the Appro 1224X dual Intel® Xeon™ server in a 1U form factor met our needs.
Appro Powers Oil and Gas Imaging for Stagg
Appro HyperBlade Clusters are a perfect example that the availability of powerful and fast "supercomputing" solutions at acceptable pricing points is changing everything in seismic data processing. For example, the performance-to-price ratio of technical computing has improved so dramatically that 3-D prestack depth migration algorithms are quickly becoming standard tools in the processing industry.
TECHNICAL REPORTS
Appro XtremeServers - Fluent Performance Benchmarks
See how the Appro 1U and 3U XtremeServers measure up against the competition with the Fluent performance benchmarks.
Scale up and out: Building a State-of-the Art Enterprise Supercomputer
This Technical White Paper is based on a High Performance Computing (HPC) Workshop sponsored by Appro and its technology and business partners to included Raytheon, AMD, Mellanox, and DataDirect. As you know, commodity clusters have become the primary choice for High Performance Computing (HPC) applications. Vendors are beginning to form alliances that allow them to offer complete turnkey solutions to users. It all starts with the design of the system; it must be viewed as a single entity to offer a balanced, scalable, and reliable platform to end-users. Its components must be well selected and well integrated. This document provides examples and technical details on how to build a state-of-the Art supercomputer class system that is ready-to-use with enterprisewide scalability and reliability.
